Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
From: hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Wrestling TidBits - 09/17
Message-ID:
Sender: news@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 17:38:42 GMT
Lines: 73
- Hulk Hogan was injured earlier this week in a motorcycle
accident in Corpus Christi. The Hulkster was negotiating
with New Japan about working several shots with the group
next year. Hogan apparently wanted to work 4 shots at $150000
each, and New Japan was offering $100000 each for 6 shots.
New Japan must be fairly confident about the deal, since they
are already talking about a Hogan vs. Scott Norton or Hogan
vs. Antonio Inoki match at the 01/04/93 Tokyo Dome show.
Talk now has New Japan and Hogan talking about $200000 each
for two shots in 1993. No word on the extent of Hogan's
injuries or if they'll effect New Japan's plans of having
Hogan at the Egg Dome.
- The Legion of Doom is no more. They were the longest-together
active tag team in the history of the sport and held the WWF,
NWA, AWA, and All Japan PWF International tag titles. It all
started a long while ago when Vince McMahon instituted his steroid
testing policy. Hawk & Animal were two of the louder voices
against the tests. Hawk failed a test (apparently not for
steroids) in February and, at that point, wanted to quit the
company. Animal wanted to stay and keep the team together.
Eventually Animal & Vince convinced Hawk to stay with the team,
with Vince offering to keep the test result hush-hush and also
offering to bring in long-time Road Warriors manager Paul
Ellering. However, news of Hawk's failed test, which only
Vince McMahon and Pat Patterson were supposed to know about,
appeared in "Penthouse" recently. After Summer Slam, Hawk
quit the promotion. He and Animal were both "officially"
suspended for six weeks for missing the flight home from
England.
Hawk's contract with the WWF will probably lock him up for
a while, much as Rick Rude was locked up for a year until his
contract ran out.
Animal is supposedly going to get repackaged as a singles
wrestler, although there is talk of finding him a new tag team
partner.
I'm not sure what this means for Paul Ellering.
And nobody has reported on who Rocko sides with in this split.
- The Ultimate Warrior and Randy Savage exchanged gifts and will
form the "Ultimate Maniacs," presumably for tag matches against
Ric Flair & Razor Ramon.
- WCW has it's annual Halloween Havoc PPV on October 25, 1992.
Tentative line-up includes:
- Jake Roberts vs. Sting in a "Spin The Wheel, Make The Deal"
match, where Sting will apparently spin a gimmicked wheel
to determine which type of match takes place. Matches
on the wheel in the "Spin The Wheel Saloon" sketch were
(in alphabetical order):
- Barbed Wire
- Cage
- Coal Miner's Glove
- Dog Collar Match
- First Blood
- I Quit
- Lumberjack Match
- Prince of Darkness
- Russian Chain Match
- Spinner Choice
- Texas Bull Rope
- Texas Death Match
- Rick Rude vs. Masa Chono for the NWA Heavyweight Title
- Ron Simmons vs. Barbarian for the WCW Heavyweight Title
- Terry Gordy & Steve Williams will defend (one or both belts?)
against the top contenders
- On top of all the comings and goings I mentioned last week, there's
still more. Junkfood Dog and Curtis Hughes are gone from WCW.
Vinnie Vegas and Tracy Smothers are gone too. There is talk that
Sid Vicious may appear at Halloween Havoc.
Herb...